Special Collections

Big Read

Description: Spark conversation and provoke thought with this diverse list of acclaimed fiction and non-fiction. The Big Read is a program sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts aimed at bringing reading back to the heart of American culture. #adults


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Title Author Date Added Action
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 05/25/2017 Read Now
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears Dinaw Mengestu 06/12/2017
The Big Smoke Adrian Matejka 01/09/2019
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya 05/25/2017
Borne Jeff VanderMeer 01/09/2019
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 05/25/2017
Brother, I'm Dying Edwidge Danticat 06/12/2017
Burning Bright Ron Rash 01/09/2019
The Call of the Wild Jack London 05/25/2017 Read Now
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast 01/09/2019
Citizen Claudia Rankine 06/12/2017
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 05/25/2017
Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng 06/12/2017
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 05/25/2017
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway and Sean Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway 05/25/2017
Five Skies Ron Carlson 06/12/2017
Gilead Marilynne Robinson 06/12/2017
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck and Robert Demott 05/25/2017
The Great Gatsby F. Fitzgerald 05/25/2017
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 06/12/2017
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson Mccullers 05/25/2017
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 05/25/2017
How We Became Human Joy Harjo 06/12/2017
Hustle David Tomas Martinez 01/09/2019
In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick 01/09/2019

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